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VOL. XX. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1905. NO, 9. / N ABSURD LAW. Scntenced'to be hang for Mur der of Her Husband WHO KILLED ET IF Woman Took Poison With Her Hulband. She Recovered, But He Died and Under Antiquated Law She Was Put on Trial for Her Life. By a singular coincident sin u tan -usly with the pubication in L )ndon Egland, f the cabled report of J. -ph Choate's speech at the Lotu (tub, in New York, wherein he ex ressed the opinion that British law was superior to the hcms-madt article and better administered, we have been reated to a striking demonstration of ,.s assinine qualitities. With black eap on head, a British j :dge in Lon don has solmenly pronounced sentence of death on an old woman for the murder of her husband, whom she did ot murder, and to c~mplete the f Lr icial tragedy a British chaplain has :,olemnly invoked the mercy of God an her "guilty so," which was no uilty. And all this with the fu:1 Knowledge that she did not commit the crime for which she was convicted and that she will never be hanged for it. In a condemned cell the aged vYc tim of legal cruelty whose sad plight -as evoked expressions of the deepest ympathy from all classes is awaiting he exercise of the crown's prerogative if mercy: After a brilef period of im prisonment she will probably be ze eased-to eke out what remains o hter wretched axistence branded as a murderess. Judge and jury are agreed .hat she should never have been con victed. But they had no other recourse than to conform to a stupid and anti quated law which ought long ago to ,.ave been repealed. Mrs. Marian Seddon's story is one of the most pitiful that has ever been told in the grim old Bailey court. She was 65 years old and her husband was 78. They had been married twelve years. After their marriage they started a confectionery shop at Staines For a time they were fairly successf l. Then trade fell off and they moved to a shop in Mortlake. There things went from bad to worse. Tne tus band's health failed. When quarter day came round they had not eLough money to pay the rent. Death or lae work house seemed to be the only al ternative open to them ar.d they chose death, but the husband alone founc it. "We decided," said Mrs. Seodon, at the inquest on his body, "that wf had better both leave the wor d gether.'' After passing a yleepso~ night worrying over their lot, bhec despair gripped her. "I can't stant this any longer," she said to her hus band. Rising from the bed she wenm to a cupboard and took from It a tot tle containingr a liniment compcst d et belladonna and sconite, which had been used to relieve her hushandi pain, it was marked "poi son." She drank half its contents. Then she said to her husband, "There is nothirg for us but this or the work house. Are you going to take you shan :" "Yes," replied the man, and snatching the bottle from his wife's hands he drain ed what remained of the poison. Mrs. Ssddon then sought her sister In law, who lived In the same hat use, told her what they had done and be sought here to see to it that they were saved ihe ignominy of pauper burial. Then she returned to the bed and lay down by her husband's side, to died with him, she thought. But the poison worked slowly. As in duty bound the sister in law told the police what had happened. The police removed the couple to the work house, which they had so dreaded. There the doctors did their best to prevent them escaping from It by death--as in duty they were bound to do. They saved Mrs. Seddoh's life, but her husband, more fortunate, succumbed. There followed, of course, a coroner's Inquest. The jury brought in a verdict of suicIde while temporily Insane. Then the police arrested Mrs. Seddon and charged her with the murder of the man who, according to the coro ner's jury, had comnitted suicide. Paradoxical as it sounds the law justi tied that charge. For the law declar es that If two persons conspire to commit suicide and one survive that survivor Is guilty of murder. The evidence at the trial made it clear that it was not a case of murder -that Is according to common sense notions. But the law was equally em phatic that It was murder, and the judge told the jury that they we uld have to stand by the law. The jury reluctantly brought in a verdict of guilty, adding a strong recon~menda tion to mercy. And the judge reluc tantly senter ced the woman to death. He said it was the saddest case he had ever tried. His opinion of the law which compelled him to impcse a sen tence that was utterly abhorrent to his notions of right and justic3 he kept to himself, for in a court of justice the most stupid law must be treated as something sacred. "We did not want to find the we moan guilty," said one of the jury men, after the trial was over, "bau after what the judge told us we c~uld not do otherwise. Of course, we knew thai the woman would not be hang~ed, anc of course, the judge knew it, too, when he pronounced sentence of deatt upon her. In this case the law is cer tainly 'an bass," and it is absurd tc retain it on the statutes.-' One of the council who took part it the trial sa.id to the writer: "The case reveals a fiaw in cur lay which certainly ought to te amended We ought to have murder in the tirs1 degree and in the secnd degree, as believe you have inrthe United Soeates It is absurd to put a pers-on who merejly technically guilty on trial fo: his or her life. A laousebreaker wah woashed a window with his ult, abi 2-ying giass from which fatally irj-re any one would be tecbicallY guly 0: murder. So would a man who shot ai a fowl which did not belang to him and acc:dentlly killed a man. AGAINST BISHOP DUNCAN. A Preachcr Alleges Thac He Is Guil ty of Non-ad ministration At the meeting of the North Geor gia Conference last week at Nerman, Ga., one of the preachers gi va notice hat he would prefer charges against B'shop Duncan of mal-administration. W tien the minutes were rean on Thursday morning Dr. W. W. Wad sworth, about whom rumors of im ridat or immoral conduct had been circulated, which had been investiga ted and found to be false by a com mittee, objected to the way in which his case was referred to in the miru tes of the day before, saying he had been done an injustice, that his c.se was not brought up in the regular way by Dr. Qallian, his presiding elder. Dr. Wadsworth asked the bish op to rule on a qaestion of law cor ceruing Dr. Quillia's action. He want ed to know if Dr. Quillian was not acting contrary to law when he brought up the question (f his case as he did after a committee had exonsrated him. The bishop did nct rule on the ques tion, but will later. D:. Wadsworth then addressed the chair, saying: "Bishop, I am in a good Lunmor, and I say it with all courtesy, but I put you on notice that I shall prefer charges against yon at the next gen ral conference for mal-administration n meddling with the characters of 'eachers." The bishop replied: *Well, Dr. Wadsworth, I don't care if y ni do." '1 -nave no doubt," answered Dr. Wadow orth, "that you do not care. I am in. a good humor, but I shall pre fer charges against you. Dr. Wadsworth had reference to the bishop asking each presiding elder as thtir names were called, if there vas anything against any preachers ! cer their charge. He claimed that .as was wrong in the bishop; that it w.s i ot his province to make such in uiries, and that it amounted to mal administration. Tae incident caused a sensation in the conference rooms. ANX UAL PSNt ION REPORT. Showing the Amounts Expanded in Each of the Counties The annual report of the state pen sion departmant has been pablisuei by the state prInter: The re port is particular'y valuable in that it giv~s Dho name of every pensioner and the amount received by him cr by her. Tae total number of pensioners le the respectie clases is as follow.s Class A, $96 each, 75; class B, $72. 192; c:ass C, No 1, $M8 585; class C, No 2 $15.50, 4 068; class C N-. 3. $48, 756; class C. N). 4. $15 50, 3 129. loml number or penmioners, 8 804 The total amlunt paii to pensioners wis $196,945 50. d vidf d among the o-mtis.as folk : Abb viiie, 53, 52; Aiken, $6.9 '0: Ander. o , $11, ' 3; Barrb. rg, 51 712.75: Barn well, 3 332; B aufopt, 5680 50; Berkeley, 52,4(3; Charleston, $3,089 50; Cherc ee, $5,163; Chester, 83 696; Chester leld, 55 696 50- Clarendon, $3,338; olleon, 56.984; Darlington, 84 989 - 50; D.'rchester, $1,754; Edgedield, 52, 884 25; Fairfield, $3 357; Florence, $3 885 50; Georgetown, $1,027; Green. v i1e, $11,014 90; Greenwood, 53,324. 5; H rmpton. 4 181 50; H~rry, $4 437; Kerstaw, $3 387.75; Lancaster, 55,880 Laurens, 26 6(5.75, L e, $2,946 50; Lexinton $5 771 27; Miarion, $5 466; Earlboro, 53 502 25; Newberry, $3, 610 50: O tonee, $6 9 5; Orangeburg, $4 375: Iken,, $5 330) 28; Richland, $5 874 5'J; S :u 'a. -83 775; Spartan burg. $17 481 50; Su mtr, 53 07 Unin' $5.034 50; Wi.1iam burg, $3, 988; York, 7,598; total, 5199.287 SO. Shocking Tragedy. L'ia;. on a couc'1 at his home in Wes'. Phiacelphia, helpl ss from par alysis, Dav.d F. Rwe, an elderly man, was shot four times by Gaspar Coop er, his son-in-law, who then fld from the house arnd killed himnselft by send it g a bullet through his head. Tne father in-law's wounds are so serious that he had to be removed to a hos pital. It is believed he will recover. Cooper had been marrit d to R~we's daughter about three years, but the wife left him about eight months ago because of Ill treatment. To day the husband returned to his father in law's house and asked to see his wife. Rowe said she was out earning her lvng. The father-In law reproached the son-in-law for iil treatir-g his iaughter and a quarrel followed, which ended by Cooper shooting his wife's father while he lay on the couch. Want State Fl1az. The members of the United Con. federate veterans camp in C icago have written the governor for a South Carolina flag to be use d by them in exerciss ovar the 6 000 Confederate Idead buried near that city. Tne let ter state s that a handsomoemonument has been erected by the camp and they desire a flag from every S uth. er state for Memorial Day exercises. The Confederate dead buried there those who died at Federal prison. The letter will probazuiy be referred to the state organization of v.:t erans. Constables wanted. The people of Cherokee townshil in Cherokee county have sent a pe ttion to Gjvernor H ey ward urging the governor to place a state consta ble at Blacksburg. The state thai since the dispens: ries were voted out at Blacksburg and Gaff aey, the in crease of illicit manufacture and sali of liquor has been so grear, it is source of annoyance to the respectabli "and law abiding res'dents of tuia1 township. The governor, of course has not yet had time to take any act ion on the petition. T.,wn Burned. 1A dispatch from Burk, McDoweJ county, Va., is to the effect that th entire town was destroyed by fir early Wednesday morning. Burk is mining town of 2.000 people abou )150 mies from there. More than 10 bulnsere destroyed. SERIOUS CHARGE Made Aagainst Senator John= sen of Fairfield County," WHICH HE IXPLAINS To the Satisfaction of the Judge. The Senator was Charged With Talk ing to and Trying to Infuence a Juror in the State House Case. The noted suit for $200,000 against <I Ivaine, Unkefer & Co., and Frank Milburn, contractors and architect, respectfully, for the c3mpletion of the state capitol for alleged irregularities and faulty construction of work, was begun in the crc lit court at Colum bia on Thursday, with an imposing array of counsel on both sides and the entire state looking on with deep interest and eagerly looking for the conclusion. The fight is honey comb ed with politics, but while some ren *ational developments have b' en promised. Mr. Milburn and the con Dractors appear to be perfectly con ident of the rtsults, and say they are anxious for the trial to be carried on and finished as they have nothirg to fear. The suit was brought by Sena tor Aldrich and R- pr sntative Yan cy Williams, appoinLti by the Icegis lature to look into the matter, which has been the subject of so many acri monious and spirited debates in the legislature. In connection with the case the Columbia State says Col W. J. John son, senator from FAirfield county and a member of the former State house commission, may be called upon in open- court to purge himself of con tempt of court. Col. Johnson "spoke his mind" very freely Thursday at the dinner hour to members of the jury, and it made such an impression upon at loast one of them that he reported the circumstanc-s. Jadgt Gage's attention was c Lled to the matter by Col. J. Q Marshall. Col. Marshall annoured that he did not want to impede the progress of the trial but he thought this mat tOr should be told to the court. Judge Gage in an unrti fld manner, after hearing that Mr. Johnson had been permitted by the defendants' attor neys to go to his heme at Ridgeway, ordered his return to Columbia. Tae following is a transcript of the inci dent from stenographic notes: Col. Karshall (-efore going on the witness stand:) I do not care to interfere with tue rrogress of this case, but I think in my duty to mention what a juror told me as I was inteilng the court room. The court indicated that Col. Mar shall should proceed with the state rent. Col. Marshall: One of the jurors informed me that a party has approachEd him outside after the ad j >urnment of ccu:t. H:s words were about this: Tuaat It was an outrage to bring this suit against Milburn and that the work had been well done. I think it my duty to call the court's attention to this. The court: Who is is this juror. Star d up. Mr. Ruif, a m' m'>er of the panel, stood up ar.d was bworn on his voir dire at the direction of the court. Q. Now, Mr. B i, state what oc curred. A. We were going along as c 'urt a j urned, going to oinner, and were approached by a man in the street, Mr. Johnson from .Ridgeway. He. spoke to us and said that it was an outrage for a suit of this kind to gco on. That the work was well done He spoke it in the presence of Mr. Kelly, Mr. Blair and myself. He al so said he was going home. Court: Is Mr. Johnson in curt. Mr. RBiff: He is not here now. I d not see him The court: Call him at the d~or. Mr. Barron, I do not think Mr. Johnson is here. H3 is 0-2e of the original State house commissioners, and was a member of the house of representatives. We had him sub poenaed here as a witness. He is now State senator from Fairflald connty. He approto e ed us before court ad. iurned and stated that on ac 0 unt of sickness in his family he desired to go home this evening at 4 o'clock and we told him we would telegraph him in cise we needed him. The court: Telegraph him to come bere. If you do not I will have a rule served on him. Mr. Barron: All right, sir. Tao court: Ask him to be here Fiday. WHAT JOHNSON SAYS. In the court of common pleas of Richland county Friday, Senator W. J. Johnson purged himself of the charge of contempt of court in so far as he was alleged to have approached a jryman and to have danouoced the trial of certain parties as an outrage Senator Johuson did not withdraw his language, but repeated it to the curt room. However he did disavow speaking to the juror inl any other than a casual manner. The juror had spoken to him first, and he had mere ly made answer in passing without recalling that Mr. Ruff, to whom his remarks were addressed, was a juror. Senator Johnson stated that he had been very much surprised to re Tive a telegram calling him back from his home at Ridge wvay on ac count of the illegation that he had addressed remarks about the trial to a juror. He could not think what had inspired this but malice and hatred. "I will state the conversation as it curred verbatim as near as my memory will permit," he continued. "When I left the court house I over 1took Mr. Ruff and Mr. Blair. I spoke to them pleasantly, told them good 1evenng and Mr, Ruff said: "What ae doing down here? Are you on this case?" I told him that I was: tha I had been subpoenaed as a wit n. "I did not use the language tba he says I used, but I told him thought the case was a da .ncd fraud and that the work tad been proper! done.and passed on. 6At the time this conversation oc curred I did not recall the fact tha Mr. Ruff was on the jury, although had seen bm on the jury while I wa in the court house. "I will be candid enough to state however, that if I had known thi fact at the time, the same conversq tion possibly would have cccurredb) cause he led up to the ccnversation.' Mr. Johnson, after defending his in tegrity, disclaimed any Intention t be disiespectful to the court. Judge Giry: "I think Mr. Ruff wa right to report the matter to thi court. Mr. Johnson disclaims any in tention of being disrespect ul to thi administration of justice. I think 1 was improper, Mr. Johnson, and : think it is improper in anybody to ref fer to a case that is pending in court. I think it is improper because it em barrasses the juror. It Is often done but the tendency of it is to hinder th lawful administration of justice. Jur ors are men and they cannot help bu be influenced by opinion on the out 6idE o3 the issues pending bafore them espedally when that opinion comei from one who is entitled, under ordi. nary circumstances, to be heeded. I think the matter might as well bi 5'opped here. I am satisfied undei your statement that the conversatior was led up to. You stated you were a ,vitness. I know as a matter of public record you had been on this commis sion, and perhaps you had more inter est in the matter than an outside aould have. I want to say emphat ically it is bad practice, and one to be ondemned, no matter who exercise! it.", TRILLING IXPERTENCE 61 a Schooner Frcm Port R )yal t< N w York, The three masted schooner, Wm. W. Converse, Capt. Nickerson, lum. ber laden, from Port Royal, to Nevi York, was towed into Norfolk harboi late Wednesday night by the steame3 itescue, with all her sails gone, hei crew exhausted and water pouring through strained seams at the rate 01 one foot an hour. The story of the saving of the Con verse is the most thrilling in thiL year's events along the Virginia-Caro lina ciast. From the time the ves. sel left Port Royal until she came t anchor Wednesday afternoon fon. miles off Dam Neck Mills life saving station, heavy seas and adverse wind had held her at their mercy. All the way up the coast she battled wit.1 them. Frst almost all of her decl load was carried away and then on sail after another went by the board, Her steering gear became Injured and she r3lled in the trough of the sea while big waves crashed over her The strain was so great that hei sides began to open and water poured into her hold. When Dam Neck Milli were sighted the C nverse anchore and s'gnalled for help. Norfolk wa advised of the vessels plight and thi Rescue put out to the scene. Suc't ; rough sea was running It was ditB ult for the wreckers to approact near enough to make a line fast t< the schooner. In one attempt a seamarn on the Rescue fell overboard and was savet from drowning only by the heroit work of a shipmate who ran out oi the point of the bow and threw a lift line with accuracy to the man In the water, After a hard struggle againsl the bind and sea the Recue at o'o'k tonight reached N irfolk har bor af ter 11. ..She is In a bad condi tien and may have to be beached. Mysterious Death. At Chester, P.s., a nr-an believe d t< be George Foster of Virginia, is dyini from in juries receivetd in a mysteric'u manner. ~He was found lying in ti road late one night and as he appear ed to be In a drunken stupor was takeI to jail. During the nigot his cond tion became serious a nd a physicial who was summoned feund that hl was suffering with hemorrhages of thi head and stomach. His condiiion the doctor said, was due to blows The polite are endeavoring to ascer tan whether the man was held up 0 was ir jared in a brawl. He wa identified by several residents c Chester as George Fjster. Nothini is known concerning him beyond thi fact that his tome is in Virginia. To R adace the Acreage. President Jordan, of the Southers Cotton Growerm es.:ociation, in al Interview sali the preparation to i up 3,000,000 bales of cotton and holl t for higher prices, in the face of tb already established short crop anl tbs unprecedented consumption, wa well under way and promises suc~ess reults. He said: "Tne entire ma chinery of the association will be pu in motion within a few days, pledg ing the cotton gro'wers of the Souti to a reduced acreage for the nex year. We will begin this early t hold down acreage to give tihe plan ters a fu1l opportunity to make at ragements for another year." Dashed to Piac s. Advices received from Cape Sabi Islands are believed to confirm las~ night's report that the collier Turbin was lost with all on board Frida night. An t. diflal dispatch says th steamer struck a rock off Mud Islani and went to pieces ten minutes afte: ward. There was no time to launc a boat and none could have livedi the sea that prevailed. Ends His Life. Drinking carbolic acid in his cf1l: James Snyder, Pennsylvania Railwa agent at Colliers. W. Va., Wednesda night committed suicide at his suppe Snyder recently complained o! havin troubles of some sort, but told no or what they were. His accounts ar straight. Snyder was thirty years age, unmarried, and a very popula railroad emplove. Fatal Fail of Slate. George Robinson, was killed an A. W. Wall, an unknowvn Hungariaz was fatally injured by a fall of slat in the New England Coal Company lat mine at Santery. Ohio. A -QUEER CASE. t A Man Ordered by His Wife to Commit Suicide. ROW HE FOOLED HER And Had a Good Time With the Money She Gave Him to Bury Himself With. Laugh on the Side of the Husband. Because he failed to obey his wife's orders to cmmtt hari-karl, Henri Nogues,of Paris France,is now lodged in j il, accused by her of committing burglary, forgery, and a variety of other heinous cff ens;es. All the same Nogues thinks that the laugh is on nis side, and Paris agrecs with him. Nogues is an expert machine itter and a practical philosopher. Wheth er he is the other things which his wife alleges, remaias to be proved by the lady, who keeps a green grocery shop in the Rue d'Aliemsgae. Mme. Nogues is a woman of thrifty habits, but a shrewish temper. She and her husband did not get along well to gether and he rejoiced when his work took him away from home for a few days. He was engaged on a job at Rennes the other day, aud congratu lating himself on his temparary relief from domestic worries, when he re ceived this exhilarating epistle from his better half: "Inhuman m-nste;! You have brough disgrace and dishonor on your family. If you do not commit iu:ciOV within twenty-four hours, I shall de nource you the police. ANNA." Any ordinary man would have been greatly depressed oy such a missive, but it did not upset Ncgues a bit. He does notseem to have denied the c 2arges, but wrote his wife that he was prepared to commit suicide. To save her the necessity of having to attend to such disagreeable details herself, however, he begged that she wou~d send him suffi ient money to enable him to make provisions for his decent burial. He besought her also to send him a photograph of her self and his two daughters, that they might be placed in the ccflia with him. H 3 concuded by pleading for her forgiveness and subsorib.d him self, "your aff.ctionate husband." Nogues' fellow-workmen noticed that he was in a particularly good humor for the rest of the day for he chuckled frequently to himself, he declined to tell them what it was that tickled his fancy so much. Mme. Nogues was delighted with the letter, but she would not risk her precious money on her husband's mere word. Instead of sending it to him by mail, she intrusted it to her brother-in-law Legris Benonie, and instructed him to see that Nogues carried out his part of the bargain, and to send her a teegra m. when the j .b was done. She gave nim $120, having figured it out that amount would enable her husband to blow his brains out dc ently and pay fLr the ifuneral expen ses. And siae considered that she would be rid of him cheaply at the price. N->gues had not calculated on Le gris taking any part in the aff air, but ne readily adapted himse t to the changed circumstanees. When Bag ris had explained his mission, Nogues professed to be well satisfied with the arrangements and th iy went off to gether to buy a revolver. SAfter the weapon had been pur chased, Nogues proposed that they a should eat a farewell dinner and crack i a couple of bottles of wine together - before he made his exit from this 1 world. - "You can cut down the funeral ex i penses a bit to make up for what it a costs," he suggested, "and Anna-she is a dear, good wife, but a bit close tisted--need never know that we had a good time with the money." -L agris acquiesed without demur r and tney adi jurned to the hotel where s Ngues was staying. There they did f full juistice to an ample dinner. S"The landlord has treated me so a well here," said Nagues when it was dinished, "that I couldn't think of committing suicide and making a mess in his place- It would not be treat lng him fairly. I'll have to do the job scme where else." "You will have to hurry." said Le grit: "I promised to send Anna a tel. a gram when it was done. Time is fly. ing and she will be gettlng anxious." S"Don't you think is would take a load off her mind if you wired at once thtI've done it?' observed Nogues. t"It wouid only be anticipating my de cease a little and would allow us ime to get matters axed up EO that t every thing will go through smoothly." o "It is anuexcellent Idea," said the accomodating Legris, "and it will give her more time to get her mourn ing ready." IThis was the dispatch that he sent Mmne. Nogues. e ''Job finished. Everything passed t off satisfactorily. Obsequies at Ran e nes." y Then they settled down to arrang e ng details. Nogues insisted that a funeral service should be held over -his body. L-gris objected that a man b who took his own life was noth entit n led to that coremnony. Nogues con tended that hiscase stood on a d: fr ent footing from that of -an ordinary suicide, since he was not seeking a death voluntarily, but was going t kill himself merely to satisfy his wife 7 and carry out her orders. Legris re cognized the force of Nogues' logic and promised to do his bast. e~ Then Nogues begged for Tbe privi e lege of being allo wed to select his owr grave. Together they sallied forLL to the cemetery. It was evening be fore Nogues had selected a site that satisfied his exacting notions. "Since my wile thinks I'm dead d anyhow," he said to his companion, a "we might as well put off the job un e till tomorrow and get a comfortable ' nights rest." Legrris cnsented and the mornini found Nogues apparently resignd tc h"s fate. 'Tm quite prepared tc shoot m-;elf," he said, "but I tbiKd it would rot be a bad idea if we first -a- a good breakfast tcgether. You can shave down the funeral expens''s a hit further to make up for it." Taey b.d a gorgeous breskfast and got somewhat fuddled over it. Then they started ,fI to the ct metery where Nogues was to blow out his brains. Tnere another idea captivated him. "I will expire," he said, "on the tomb of my parents. They lie at Montfort. Ob iously that is the best place to do the j b. I shall rest easier if I lie with them." AS there was no train to Monfort that day the dire deed was postponed antil the morrow. When Montfort was reached Nogues suddenly remem bered that his cousin was the priest of the parisn and his death in the cemetery would bring disgrace upon cim. Rather than do that he woul-t sacrifice his own convenience: So it was decidt d that the tragedy shouid be enacee at Pantin. Tae two men took tickets for Paris and arrived at Monparna!se station at midn-ght. Then N:gues discovered that lie had forgotten to make his will and sever. al hours were spent in drawirg up that document, varicus cafes being visited in the interim. In conse querce Legris was reduced to a con dition in which further locom tion was impossible. Tee two men sepa rated, Nogues vowing that when dawn broke his corpse would be fvuad iin the Pantin cemetery. Before daybreak Nogues staggered into his wire's home in the Rae d'Al lemagne. Wnen she discovered that it was not a ghost and that all the money she had intrusted to her broth er in law for the funeral had been ex pended, her fury knew no bounds. She called in the police and made charges enough against her husband to keep him in j il for many years if he be guilty. Bat he stouily declares that he is innocent and that her sole motive in making the accusation R to get rid of him. A PECULIAR CASS. A Citizen of North Snes Railroad For a Bg Sum. For alleged failure to post certain rates and schedules at North, a sta tion on the Saboard Airline Rilway, suit was brought by a citiz -n of that place for $32.900 some time ago and a deciaion was rendered by the supreme court last week, thraing the suit out of the courts. The case was de eided by Judge Towsend in the lower curts on a d-murrer entered by the Seaboard, which stated that the com plaint was defective and that parts of it were unconstitutional. Tnis dis poses of this suit, b it it is said that another case will be brought shortly. The complaint was Dine of the most interesting brought in a long time and was as follows: That section 3092 and 2093 of the civil ccds of South Carolina provides that the rail road commissioners of said state shall fix a schedule of reasonable freight and passenger rates for each railroad corpration doing busineES in this state. That the defendant is a railroad corporation doing business in said state, ani that North is a station on said railroad corporation between Columnbia, S. 0., and Denmark, S. C., but the said station of North is whol ly within the state of South Carolina. That the railroad commissioners of said state more than one year prior to the commencement of this action fix ed a schedule of freight and passen ger lates for the defendent corpora tion. That section 2093 of the civill code or South Carolina provides that any railroad corporation failir g to post at any ot its stations a c py of the sched ules aforesaid shall incur and s~ffsr a penalty of one hundred dollars for each and every day during which time such corporation shall fail to post suah schedule and that such pen alty may be sued far by any citizen of the said state, and the recovery shah e equally divided between the citizen so suing and the state of South Carc lina. That the defendent failed to post such schedules at the said station of North, S. C., from January 1, 1903, to D. cember 9, 1903w a pericd of three hundrid and twenty-nine days, and and that thereby the defendant has incurred and Is liable for a psnalty ag gregating thirty-two thousand nine hundred dollars- That the plaintfl is a citzen of the said state, and sues for the said penalty of thirty-twe thousand nine hundred dollars accord ing to the provisions of section 2093 of the code. & Significant statement, In his speech at Akron, Q.1o, Sec retary Taft told the pecple that ' WAl lam J Bryan would become the suc cesful leader of the democratic party and a menace to the prosperity of the country unless something shcu'd be accomplishec by President R iost valt." This is not only a significant statement but it is a compliment to the Nebras ra democrat, and, reading between the lines of the utterance, the fact stands out that the "something' Prsident Roosevelt must do to pre vent democratic success in the nation is t o carry out the ref orms for which Bryan stands and which have gisen birth to the term Bryanism. All of this goes to showa that Taf t has a level head. He knows that the people are gettmng their eyes open and that unless the Rspublican pary mends i's ways it will be permanently retired. Fatal Scrap. At New York a quarrel over election matters is believed by the police to caused the murder last night of W. F. Harrngtonl, in Little Naples dance hall and also the probable fatal injar ing of Abraham Juckerman, who was found with a fractured skull some distance away from Little Nitples, whiCn is conducted by Paul 1611y, leader of ao inst Side gang. Both Kled. At Jackson. Tenn.. Hugh G. Ryals of that city, was instantly killed and Warner .itckard, of Paris, Tenn., seriously injured Wednesdiay night by faling jv:;r a bannister, while ergag d in a friendly seuill: at the Sousu western Presbyrerianl Uciversity. Both were studoats and the sons of miniters. DAN MUBPRYS CASE Beirg Zecalled by His Irrest at Ewainsboro, Georgia The Man Wha Assassinated Treasur er Copes, of Orangeburg County. Wilt Serve Out His Term. The story of the career of Dan Mar phy, the escaped convict who is said Lo have b:.en cap'ured at Swainsboro, Ga , has recalled some singular ir ci dents in connecion with tae oc mr ence. It was published in The State on Tuesday of last we k that the amount taken from the body of Treas urer Copes was $10 000. The State of Wednesday says "%ae accuracy of this statement has been questioned by two former citizens of Orangebuig, one of whom says that the murder-ea creasurer had on his person but $1,000 and another for mer citiz:n of that place states that the amoun5 was not more than $425. "In one particular they both agree. T-e money was not found by the mur. derer. Treasurer Copes had the bulk of the money in his pocket where it was not discovered. Tne money which the assassin secured was not- more than $20, principally in pennies. Tne cowaialy murderer pernaps did not stop to open the hand bag, whose weight no doubt deceived him into chinking that it contained currency of value when as a matter of fact it was filled with one cent pieces. And apon that depended the conviction of Murphy. ' Tae crime startled the State and for some time there was no clue. It is said by one of these Ora'geburg gentlemen that the case was ferreted uut by Mr. Geo. B. Kittrell, a man of it quiring and investigating turn of mind, who got his first clu: from an examination of the subscription books of a county paper. He disciverea that jus 3u days before the murder a man nom some point in Florida had subsoiotd for - this paper for a short peri d. On , investigation it was fouaa Mat the paper was going to the fictitions address given, but had been taken out of the postoffice by Dan Murphy. If there was any motive at all in this move it was that the man planning the robbery might know the dates on which the county treasurer would make his rounds from town to town in tne discharge of his duty as taxgatherer, as was permitted under the jaw of that time. "In this way Murphy's name was for the first tin e connected winh the af-ir, even by suspicion. Murphy was canen followed and it was found that at a remote place in Colleton county he nad excnanged a large number of pennies for sliver. This was another ijnk in the chain. "Finanly It was discovered that Mur phy had a shot gun which showed uertain characteristics- noticed in connection with the shells fired in the gun which killed Mr. Copes. Tae piunger struck the shell in a peculiar plunger stru.:k ttre shell in a peculiar manner wnich corresponded exactly with Murphy's gunl. *Tnese facts taken In connection with Murphy's stolidity when arrest ed and his ref ugal to say anything in answer to charges or to excuse himself in any way wound the rope around nis neck. The evidence was circum stantial in the m. in, but had he been innocent he might have proved an ahibi, *hen his neck was in danger. However, he would say nothing and would tell nothing of his movements or 10 days preceecing the killing. "As recounted yesterday, he was convicted and sa' tenced to be hanged and the very afternoon before the ex ecution he was given a commutation of sentence on an alibi framed up in Augusta, it is said, by relatives of Murphy. This alibi was discredited by the people of Orangeburg to the extent that they cried out in criticism of the .governor who at that time granted tne c.Fmmutation and of the attorneys employed by Murphy's relatives. "It is said by parties who knew Murphy at school tnat he was not a man of nerve, but was a sknilring coward, and that he was a black sheep all of his life, his main occupa tion after being grown having been the peddling of liquor at negro camp meetings." Tne county paper Murphy subscrib ed for while in Fi~rida was The Times and Dimocrat. He did not subscribe in a .fictitious name but in his own name, Tue amount of mmney Mr. Copes had with him when assassinated was $000.00. All of this money, ezs cept about thirty dcllars in change Mr. Copes had in his pocket. Tne ~mall change was in asatcaiel in the back of his buggy. When the assas sin had done his dastardly act of as sassinating Mr. Copes, he hurriedly grabbed the satchel which he evident ly thought contained all the money Mr. Copes had collected thbat day, and in this way he failed to get what he nad assassinated Mr. Copes to get. Tne amount the assassin got was 30 dollars, much of which was in cop pers, which Mr. Copes generally carri ed with him to make change. Mr. Geo. B. Kittrell worked hard to find out the assassin, and, as The State says, was the first man to suspect the man wno was convicted of tne crime Dain. C. Murphy.-Orangeburg Times and Democrat. Talking co ?tne BayB. A Missouri cotemporary rises to re mark: "Once I was young but now I am old, and I1 have never seen a girl that was unfithful to her mother that ever came to be worth a one eyed button to her husband. It is the law -of God. It isn't exictly in the bible, but it is written large and awful in t..e miserable lives of many untit homes. I'm speaking for the bay titime. If one of you chaps coes actss a girl that, with a face full of roses, says to you as she ccmes to the dour, 'I cant go for thirty minutes, for the dishes are not wash ed yet,' you wait for that girl. You sit right do ~n and wait for her, b3 cause some other fellow may come al ng and carry her ci, and right ~here you lose your ang~e]. Wait for iat girl and stick to her like a burr to a wonoly doge BOLD THIEVES. Burglars Cast off Safe With Seventy Thousand Dollars WORTH OF GEMS. The Home of a Millionaire Resident of Patterson, New Jersey, Robbed While He Was Attending Re. vival Service. Safe Thrown From Window. A $70,000 jewel robbery, engineer ed with remarkable delicacy and dar. mlg, occured IniPatterson, N. i, Thursday night, when thebhome of Frederick W. Cooke,-millionsire mem ber of the Passaic Steel Company, and one of the best known men in North. ezn New Jersey, was entered and a heavy safe, containing practically every bit of jewelry in the family pog session, was hurled from a second story window to the soft dirt In a yard and carted away. Absolutely no traceof the direction the housebreakers took could be found by the police. The skill of the rob bers wa5 amazing. They used no ..ackle 'wer the safe, the contents of wh.-.C were diamonds and other gems, currency'and Valuable papers. The only attempt to hide their pre ence was made when they chose t6e rear of the house by which to- escape with their loot. Mr. Cooke went to the Chapman revival meeting about 8 o'clock, and remained there until the end of the services. He returned promptly to his home at N.o. 384 Broadway. No evidences of the roberry were found by the millionaire when he opened the door which was securely iocked,'but when he reached the sec. - ond floor he fcound a window open. Taia was unuasual, and he iavestiga ted. Thinking of the safe, which con tained jewels left by Mr. Cooke's mother to his wife, he entered the room where the steel device, about two feet square, had been stored. It was gone. Looking out the. window the victim saw a hole in the turf of the yard.-He descended and found a dent such as the corner of the safe would have made had it been dropped. It made no noise when in struck the ground, and the burglars presumably fgured un this ruse for avoiding attention. The police were immediately notii ed, buo not even the suggestion of a clew to the robbera could be found. Nobady had seen a vehicle standing opposite or near the Cooke home, and i- is certain that the looters did not carry off their booty by hand. When Mr. Cooke's mAther died she left all her j iweis, worth many thous ands of duilars, to her son's wife. There were family heirlooms worth just as much in the safe, and jewelry belonging to the millionaire's wife and to himself, besides yalnable papra which Mr. Cooke cannot aff 3rd to lose. - Goes Up Head. At the annual meetiig of the stock. holders of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad at R chmond, Va., last week ?. M. Emerson, of Wilmington,NT. C., was elec.ed president; vice B. T..Er. yin, resigned/ Mr. Emerson was for mnerly fouth vice president and traf& - manager. He succaeded Mr. Erwin on the board of directors. All the .ther cf~cers and directors were ie elected Alex Hamilton, former sec ond vice president, was promoted to De first vice president. C. S. Gads den was promoted from third to sea ond vice president. ,T. B. Kenly was made third vice president. A divi dend of 3 per cent. was declared on the stock, placing ison a 6 instead of a 5 p.ar cent. bais. Tne annual re port showed an I :crease In milleage, gross and net receipts. President Emnerson started with the road as a clerk in tne freight offces in Wil mington, N. C., at $75 per month. Where Is the Fool Killer?" A dispatch from Louisville, Ky., says a unique social function was that given on Friday by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur K. Lord In honor of their dog, Boots, the occasing being the sigh teenth anniversary of his Dlrth. Sur-' rounding the board were a number of well known local people. The guest of honor, Boots, was seated at the right hand of the hostess, and, all things cnsidered, he behaved remark. ably welL. His mend consisted of tid bits of beef, rice and bread, and. he went through the bill in a manner said to have been edifying to tee guests. Boots had his dinner served in silver platters, and he would not accept anything less. His one article or adjornimens was a 'blue bow abonit his neck _______ Blown to Pieces. Four men were blown to pieces Wednesday afternoon by an explosion at the iab-ratory of the International Smokeless Pojwder and Cnemical com pany at Parlin, N. J. The cause of the explosion will never be known, as only tne foar men were in the build ing at tne tme. Tne building was a one story frame structure and Decause of the liability to explosions was sep. arated from ali the others in the plant except one by a spa of several han dred feet. Tne next building was a storehouse in which supples used In tne other were stored. This caugat fire a2d was burned. Fatal Accident. A special from Cranberry, N. C., says two kc.idents occured there Fri day at the plant of the Cranberry Furnace Company, as the result of which one man, Thomas Fjwler, of Johnson City, Tenn., will die, and three Other men are seriously injured. Fowlers' injury was due to his cloth ing, biing c.ught by a belt, which woun.1 his body abant a revolving shaft. The th~ree men Injured, whose names are not given, were at work on a sc. ff~ld, thirty feet high, when it gave way. Both accidents Courred w.ahin a short time.